Substances that increase the risk of NEOPLASMS in humans or animals. Both genotoxic chemicals, which affect DNA directly, and nongenotoxic chemicals, which induce neoplasms by other mechanism, are included.
    

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Eyes watching out for carcinogenic materials in the workplace. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Kankerbestrijding/KWF, ca. 2001.

Chemical carcinogenesis and molecular biology / Pascaline Daudel and Raymond Daudel.

Organ and species specificity in chemical carcinogenesis / edited by Robert Langenbach, Stephen Nesnow, and Jerry M. Rice.

The prevention of cancer / editors, Ronald W. Raven, Francis J.C. Roe.

Chromatin structure and function / [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held at Erice, Italy, April 12-26, 1978] ; edited by Claudio A. Nicolini.

Carcinogenesis abstracts.

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Chemical carcinogenesis and molecular biology / Pascaline Daudel and Raymond Daudel.

Organ and species specificity in chemical carcinogenesis / edited by Robert Langenbach, Stephen Nesnow, and Jerry M. Rice.

The prevention of cancer / editors, Ronald W. Raven, Francis J.C. Roe.

Chromatin structure and function / [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held at Erice, Italy, April 12-26, 1978] ; edited by Claudio A. Nicolini.

Carcinogenesis abstracts.